For all my previous forts, I've always relied on
ingeniously designed traps and lots and lots of
Earthly love to keep enemy gobbos out, but I've been getting a bit tired of watching goblins roasting and instead want to see them being hacked to pieces using the raw power of dwarven muscles (aka I'm making a military fort).
So far I've been having no major problems with getting my military to train/equip/do stuff, but after recruiting more than ~25 dwarves in my army, I've been running into some management difficulties. I like to equip my dwarves individually, but after stocking up more than ~10 iron axes, I can't ever seem to remember whether an axe has been taken or not. I'd specifically assign a weapon to a new dwarf in training, only to realize 2 seasons later that I accidentally took my legendary axedwarf's battleaxe when he charged headfirst into an ambush party with nothing but his bare hands.
The same problem occurs with all the other kinds of armor such as when I accidentally take the socks and shoes of one dwarf and give them to another, and in my haste to correct the error, accidentally end up taking the footwear of yet another dwarf.
Is there some way to see which individual weapon/armor is assigned to which dwarf when choosing a specific weapon for them?
I know I could just assign them the general option of taking any random shoe/axe or taking what they prefer, but I really want to make my dwarves wear exactly what I want them to without accidentally taking the stuff from another dwarf.
Any help please?
tl;dr how can i see on the equip screen which of my 10 identical battle axes are already equipped by a dwarf or not?
Another question, when will my dwarves start to grow beards? They all have annoyingly elf-like clean shaves.